The PBF Summer Fellowship Program provides valuable and unique medical research opportunities for Kansas City area undergraduate students pursuing careers in medicine and medical research. The program grant was renewed in 2023 for $135,000 covering years 2023 to 2025.
Since 2012, promising full-time graduate students to have been matched with faculty mentors at the University of Kansas Medical Center for 8-10 weeks of intensive research. Summer Fellows receive a weekly stipend and are mentored by Navneet Dhillon, PhD, Professor in the Department of Medicine and a former PBF Fellow. In addition to their research and bio-weekly meetings with Dr. Dhillon, they participate in eight, one-hour training sessions with medical students on a variety of topics. At summer’s end, each student presents their research work at a special PB Research Presentation Day. In 2024, five Summer Fellows successfully completed the program.
